2015 Japan 10,000 Yen Gold Earthquake Series IV PROOF

Japan 2015 Gold Earthquake Proof

Unlike the United States, South Africa or China, Japan is not known for striking gold coins. In fact, prior to these gold coins, Japan had not issued a gold coin for six years! So what prompted this gold issue?

The 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.

The most powerful earthquake to ever hit Japan – and the world’s fourth most powerful earthquake ever recorded – it devastated entire cities, caused thousands of deaths, destroyed or collapsed hundreds of thousands of buildings, and resulted in the meltdown of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, a disaster rivaled by only Ukraine’s Chernobyl disaster in 1986. The earthquake was so strong that it actually moved Honshu, Japan’s main island, eight feet to the east!

In 2015, to honor the memories of what was lost and to pay tribute to the nation’s heroic recovery efforts, Japan issued the Gold Great East Japan Earthquake Reconstruction Project Memorial series that pays tribute to the spirit and resiliency of the Japanese people. Prominent on the coin is the “Miracle Pine,” the only tree still standing in what was the Takata Matsubara forest after the earthquake’s resulting 42-foot high tsunami wave destroyed its 70,000 brothers and sisters. The coin’s reverse bears the 10,000 Yen legal-tender denomination and a stylized design of a dove – symbolic of nature once again being at peace with mankind.

• SIGNIFICANT DESIGNS – The significance of the design is central to its Japan’s recovery efforts. The solitary “Miracle Pine” that survived the tsunami became THE symbol of the reconstruction effort. The coin’s obverse was chosen from designs put submitted by the Japanese public, and shows a sty stylized dove representing nature’s bounty with a sprig of wheat in its beak.

• STRUCK IN HALF OUNCE OF PURE GOLD – the Japan 10,000 Yen Gold Earthquake Proof is struck in a half ounce of 99.9% gold.

• STRICT LIMITED EDITION – Your coins comes from a strict limited mintage of just 9,000 coins. As if that wasn’t a small enough mintage, just 10% of the entire release was designated for distribution outside of Japan.

This remarkable proof reflecting human resiliency in the face of Mother Nature’s fury is a must-have for collectors of unique and hard-to-find coins.  Quantities are limited so order yours now.